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Diabetes

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Your Shoppers Drug Mart Pharmacist can help you better understand how to monitor and manage your diabetes. You’ll learn how food choices can affect your blood glucose levels so you can improve your diabetes health.

It’s part of our ongoing program of health knowledge and advice to help you live well.
Features
The future of diabetes care
Smart snacking for people with diabetes
Tools you can use!
Diabetes: Staying healthy from head to toe
RX for Action
Are you in control of your diabetes?
Managing type 2 diabetes: A checklist
Pregnancy and gestational diabetes
Pregnancy is an experience that brings with it many different changes. For approximately 5% of women around the world, pregnancy also causes gestational diabetes.
Diabetes: Don't neglect your feet
Complications related to diabetes affect many parts of the body, and the feet are no exception. Your healthcare team should include a foot specialist to help keep your feet healthy and avoid serious problems.
Dodging type 2 diabetes
Each year in Canada, doctors diagnose 60,000 people with type 2 diabetes. That's an alarming figure for a condition that can cause serious complications and is also largely preventable.
Take control!
You can help delay or prevent the onset of type 2 diabetes.
All About Diabetes
In Canada, over 2.25 million people have diabetes, and about one-third of adults with the condition are unaware that they have it.
Know your numbers
Find out how IGT is diagnosed.
Dangerous sugar high
Get the facts on impaired glucose tolerance, a condition related to type 2 diabetes. 
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FAQs
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